No.173,

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

 
ITS3

The ALICE Physics Week will be held in hybrid mode (in person at CERN as well as online).
For those at CERN, you are welcome to join in person in the Main Auditorium.
 

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

         Recent health measures:   A reminder of the COVID-19 measures in place

         Frequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.

  • <ul type="disc">
    <li>LHC Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 11:00: "<a
    moz-do-not-send="true"
    href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1065146/">Recent results on
    Higgs Boson pair production exploring boosted topologies from
    CMS</a>" by Santeri Laurila (CERN).<br>
    <br>
    </li>
    <li>TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 14:00: "<a
    moz-do-not-send="true"
    href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1071106/">Holography of
    Information and Massive Islands</a>" by Suvrat Raju.<br>
    <br>
    </li>
    <li>TH Exceptional Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 16:00: "<a
    moz-do-not-send="true"
    href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1079787/">Aspects of
    Thermalized Radiation Reaction</a>" by Morgan H. Lynch
    (Technion: Israel Institute of Technology).<br>
    <br>
    </li>
    <li>TH BSM Forum, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 13:00: "<a
    moz-do-not-send="true"
    href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1065441/">Covariant
    Color-Kinematics Duality</a>" by Dr James Mangan<br>
    <br>
    </li>
    <li>TH Exceptional Seminar, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 14:00: "<a
    moz-do-not-send="true"
    href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1064380/">Understanding and
    improving mental health at work</a>" by Katia Schenkel,
    Sebastien Paul Tubau<br>
    <br>
    </li>
    <li>CERN Colloquium, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 16:30: "<a
    moz-do-not-send="true"
    href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1077061/">How will we do
    mathematics in 2030?</a>" by Prof. Michael Douglas (Stony
    Brook University)<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    </li>
    </ul>Wearing of Proximeters is mandatory at CERN, even in level 2 - Yellow.
  • Self-testing at CERN: is for those coming on-site and exhibiting no symptoms. If you have symptoms, even mild ones, do not come on site, contact the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777 to arrange for an RT-PCR test at the Proxilis medical laboratory in Meyrin.

    e-learning module for self-testing is available here. Sign-up for a self-test using the Plamed tool.

    There are 11 self-testing points at CERN, the list and map locations for them are available here.

     
  • A COVID vaccination centre at CERN will be opening on the CERN site in building 693 on 27 September for anyone holding a CERN access card and either resident in France or a French national. To sign up for a vaccination at CERN, call the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777. Full details will be made available shortly on the COVID-19 information webpages at https://hse.cern.

    Vaccination is readily available in Geneva at several sites, including some without appointment: see the page here.
     
  • Applying to convert a Foreign Vaccination Certificate into a French Covid Passe Sanitaire and Requesting a COVID certificate in Geneva: Follow the link here.
     
  • The use of COVID passes: CERN has introduced the use of the certificate as of 13 September for public site visits, events in the Globe, and exhibitions. A COVID certificate is not required for professional access to the site.
     
  • Measures in France: Since 8 September, the COVID certificate (pass sanitaire) has no longer been required to access shopping centres in departments where the incidence rate is below 200 per 100 000, and has been falling for at least seven days. Full details of the measures in France may be found here.
     
  • Measures in Switzerland: As of Monday 13 September, a COVID certificate has been required to access indoor areas of restaurants, cultural and leisure facilities, and events held indoors. See the Council’s press release for full details are here.
     
  • Travel:
    - France updated its classification of countries as green, orange or red on 10 September: details are here.
    - There are currently no countries requiring quarantine on arrival in Switzerland. See here for details.

      For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch

EVENTS OF INTEREST

NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here

New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications

PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW

New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications

NEWS FROM POINT 2

ALICE is in the global commissioning phase:

  • Shift Booking:
     
        • ALICE shift booking is open. Please sign-up for shifts.
           
        • We are missing DCS and SL/ECS blocks in September and October. We are entering extremely important phases for the pilot beam test preparations. Therefore, having DCS and SL/ECS shifters is crucial.
            • Main data taking and commissioning activities:
               
              • Now we are running ITS+TPC+TOF+MFT+MCH+MID in one partition and raw TF data verification ongoing.
                 
              • Detector performances are being optimized (noise, etc).
                 
              • ITS and MFT are progressing noise calibrations.
                 
              • MCH ST2 commissioning ongoing.
                 
              • Next week, we will integrate TRD and FIT and prepare for the TED shots.

            LS2 Schedule:

            Milestone

              CONFERENCES

              CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
              SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
              • Blois2021, Blois, France, 17 - 22 October, abstract deadline 24 September
                 
              • RAPID2021, Jammu, India - online, 25-29 October, abstract deadline 30 September
                 
              • Latin American Symposium on HEP, Sao Paolo, Brazil - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 17 October
                 
              • International Workshop on HEP, Moscow, Russia - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 6 November
                 
              • Light Cone 2021, Jeju Island, Korea, 29 November - 4 December, abstract deadline 31 October
                 
              • Lepton Photon 2021 - hybrid, 10-14 January, abstract deadline 1 October
                 
              • VCI 2021, Vienna, Austria, 21-25 February, abstract deadline 3 October
                 
              SCHOOLS

              OUTREACH NEWS

              • COVID Level 2: CERN is gradually reopening to visitors. Details are in the CERN visits website.
                 
              • Virtual, VIP and press visits are already taking place regularly: indico link.
                 
              • ALICE underground visits: are now open to people having a valid CERN access card, with a limited number of visitors, and in respect of special COVID rules. The guidelines are documented here.
                 
              • ALICE Virtual Visits: are announced in the official CERN catalogue. A list of open virtual visits is announced in the Visits link.

                ALICE needs volunteers for virtual as well as underground visits. Virtual visits require having 2 or 3 guides. If interested, please get in touch with  alice-visits, or alice-outreach-virtual-visits
                 
              • ALICE LEGO Model has been designed by both high school and university students in Germany as part of a workshop series organised jointly by Christian Klein-Boesing, Marcus Mikorski and Sascha Mehlhase.
                 
              • CERN Alumni Second Collisions (1-3 October)
                 
              • Weekly activities open to everyone at CERN: from relaxing coffee meetings to High Intensity Training. CERN colleagues have put together a series of activities to help us stay connected in these challenging times.
                 

              DIVERSITY

              ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.

               

              Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

              JOB OPPORTUNITIES

               
              Title
               
              Institute
               
              Application deadline
              Electronics Engineer University of Mainz 17 Oct 2021
              Tenure-track Assistant Professor Ohio State University 30 Nov 2021
              Two 3-year postdoctoral positions in Experimental Hadron Physics University of Glasgow 28 Sep 2021
              Assistant Professor in experimental elementary particle physics The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL 15 Nov 2021
              Postdoctoral Fellow in ATLAS Oklahoma State University 1 Oct 2021
              Post-Doctoral Fellow(s) in Particle Phenomenology and Applications of Machine Learning at Colliders SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, India and
              Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
              25 Sep 2021
              Postdoctoral Research Associate Wayne State University
              Contact: Prof. Claude A. Pruneau,
              31 Oct 2021
              Research Associate / Assistant Professor (Research), non tenure-track Wayne State University
              Contact: Prof. Sergei A. Voloshin
              15 Nov 2021
              Postdoctoral fellowship in heavy-ion physics with LHCb Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory, CNRS 13 Oct 2021
              DESY-Fellowships – experimental particle physics DESY 30 Sep 2021
              Assistant Professor of Physics University of Michigan 1 Nov 2021
              Rokos-Clarendon Associate Professor of Experimental Neutrino Physics University of Oxford 11 Oct 2021
              Faculty Position in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL 15 Nov 2021
              Particle Physics Division Head Fermilab 30 Sep 2021
              Postdoctoral fellowships The Muon Radiography team of the center for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 1 Oct 2021

                           Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.